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Fast Talk: How A Former Google Exec Plans To Transform Loans

Meet Douglas Merrill, Google's former Chief Information Officer, whose loan-giving startup ZestCash makes FICO scores seem straight outta the Stone Age. "All data is credit data," he says--and the insight is helping America's "underbanked" legions.READ»

iFive: Apple's New iPhone and Chicago's Spire Are Rising and Google's Old Wonder Boy Is Falling in Today's Innovation News

While you slept, innovation brushed up his resume and begged Google CEO Eric Schmidt to let him come home. Here's today's top innovation news: Next-gen iPhone rumors abound. Video camera, faster Net, can act as a DVR remote. ...READ»

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Medical Tourism / Our May cover story -- on Silicon Valley startup Ning and its CEO, Gina Bianchini -- attracted plenty of interest, but it was a thornier subject that drew the broadest range of comment: the outsourcing of health care ...READ»